Thoreau writes in his journal:
The purple finch sings like a canary and like a robin. Huckleberry leaves here, too, are sticky, and yellow in my fingers. Pyrus arbutifolia in bloom. The low, spreading red cedars which come abruptly to naught at top suggest that they be used for posts with the stubs of branches left, as they often are . . .
Thoreau gives two lectures at Leyden Hall in Plymouth, Mass. At 10 A.M. Thoreau lectured on “Walking” and his 7 P.M. lecture was “The Wild” (“Walking;” “The Wild“).
